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Julie A. Murphy; Rachel E. Scott; Anne Shelley; Mallory Jallas; Rachel Park – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
As academic librarians become aware of the challenges textbook expenses pose to student success, they have increased efforts to provide free access to required course materials. Librarians at Illinois State University initiated a program to license course-assigned e-books, surveying participating students and faculty regarding their perspectives…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Barriers, Textbooks
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Hackman, Timothy; Carroll, Alexander J.; Corlett-Rivera, Kelsey; Macomber, Kendra; Ding, Yishan – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This article describes the results of a survey that gathered data on perceptions and use of e-books from undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff at two Maryland research universities in 2019. It follows two previous surveys in 2012 and 2014 by the same team of investigators, with slight changes in personnel, and compares…
Descriptors: Electronic Books, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, College Faculty